Cincinnati Man Spanks Son Over Poor Video Gaming
We don't know who to lampoon first here, the father who hit his son for sucking at a video game, or the police and media who are portraying a spanking as serious child abuse.According to Cincinnati police, 50-year-old Terry Taulbee was arrested and charged with domestic violence after he hit his six-year-old son around his lower back and buttocks leaving red hand prints which, according to the Cincinnati Inquirer, "caused pain for the child." According to the alleged victim's mother, the spanking took place after the boy performed poorly in a video game, which is just about the worst reason to spank anyone ever.
While the spanking was clearly undeserved, we'd hardly call it a "beating" like every other media outlet that has picked up the story. Sometimes a kid needs to get spanked. Most of us here at Switched got smacked in the butt when we misbehaved as children and we turned out (relatively) okay.
So is Taulbee guilty of "beating" his kid? No -- just of being a bad father and a jerk. But, sadly, those things are not illegal. [From: Cincinnati Inquirer, Via: Joystiq]
